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October 10, 2020

California Special Education Funding System Study, Part 1: A Descriptive Analysis of Special Education Funding in California

More than 725,000, nearly 12 percent, of California’s public school students receive special education and related services. Although more than half of those students spend 80 percent or more of the school day in a general education classroom, California’s special education funding system may not be as inclusive as California’s classrooms. This report provides a […]

February 1, 2017

Making the case for an ethnic studies program

The Ed Partners RPP staff worked with Stanford University and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to evaluate an ethnic studies course to see how it would affect student achievement and engagement. We paired SFUSD leaders with an economics researcher at Stanford to examine the program in San Francisco schools. The researcher and public school […]